Fedya
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> Where is the good stuff?
They're buried under the big W in a park between San Diego and the Mexican border.
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> I thought Ben's intro for THE OLD MAID was great tonight.
It was better than the movie itself, which I didn't think was very good.
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[Half of Hitchcock's earliest known movie found in New Zealand archive|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8678748/Lost-Alfred-Hitchcock-film-found-in-New-Zealand.html]
Well, Hitchcock wasn't actually the director; "just" the assistant director and set designer.
No word on whether they'll find the other three reels.
Edited by: Fedya on Aug 3, 2011 6:42 AM, to complain that they still haven't fixed the linking bug where you can only use the URL as the underlined link.
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I was hoping for a copy of *Convention City* to show up.
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> or that Margaret O'Brien would do the cakewalk, then be strangled in a booze-fueled rage by Bogart ( that I would love to see!)
I would have loved to see anybody strangle Margaret O'Brien. ;-)
(She's not my favorite child star by any means.)
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> I apologize for breaking the flow of discussion at this point, but I cannot resist interjecting here to note that Hume Cronyn was Canadian.
That would explain why the character is so evil. :-p
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I'd rather see *Mother is a Freshman*, for all its stupidity, than most of Brando's oeuvre.
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> As for Grant, he could have surprised everybody and made a great sadistic killer.Who would have suspected him? I'd be willing to bet he'd have jumped at the chance too. Too bad Hitchcock didn't think of that.
I thought Hitchcok did think of it with *Suspicion*, and that it was the producers who had an apoplectic fit at the thought of Cary Grant playing a manipulative killer. It's consistent with the ending being an utter cop-out.
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Route 66 is currently in the rotation on RTV. I haven't seen the other shows you mentioned show up on RTV, and I don't get the other channels mentioned in the thread where I am. (Just RTV, ThisTV, and Universal Sports.)
They've also got Naked City, which in the past week or two has had an episode with Jack Klugman and one with Roddy McDowall.
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Hope Emerson in *Caged* is nearly as bad, although we don't get to see her strip down to an undershirt and wield a truncheon.
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> Your "Summer Under The Stars" moment of zen -
I'm sorry, but it's little more than a pointless Flash animation, which has little functionality and is a terrible memory hog (and didn't download properly the first time I clicked your link). And of course there's no non-flash option. At least the PDF schedule actually has the full schedule, albeit without the synopses, and in their choice of font and text size.
Have I mentioned just how much I hate Flash?
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I'd like Alex Sebastian's house from *Notorious*, at least if it came not only with the staircase, but with the wine cellar as well stocked as it is in the movie (and I mean with actual wine, not McGuffins).
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I've been coping by getting out my binoculars and spying on the people in the apartments across the courtyard.
Unfortunately, I think the salesman murdered his wife.
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I hope none of you will be complaining about the snow in January and February. :-)
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Note that *Between Two Worlds* is a remake of *Outward Bound* (1930), starring Leslie Howard early in his career.
Both movies were based on a stage play.
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> And, I believe this early less-than-noble Baxter is what makes the ending of this great story and film even better, as we can see the growth of his character towards a more noble individual.
Be a mensch !
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That guy was Mr. Memory. :-)
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My understanding is that Tierney kept the painting after *Laura*, which would explain why it was easily available for later movies. :-)
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> I quite agree with you that it was odd that Prof. Shaheen (not Sheehan) didn't mention the absurd depiction of Iraqis in *Adventure in Iraq* as devil worshipers, who worshiped the snake and the peacock.
I could swear he did mention the "devil worshiper" part in his remarks before the movie, although I don't recall if he mentioned the snake and peacock parts. Prof. Shaheen also mentioned that you had a king who was being portrayed as so barbaric that he was perfectly happy to have his brothers get killed.
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Don't forget *These Are the Damned* with Viveca Lindfors and Macdonald Carey.
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> The Soviet official in charge of tracing down opponents of the regime says that some call it terror, but it's what has to be done. I interpret that line as a defense of Stalin's policies in the 1930s.
I think the terror that Stalin had committed at the time the movie was released was the mass starvation of Ukrainians during the forced collectivization. What we normally think of as the Stalinist terror really picked up with the assassination of Leningrad mayor Kirov in December 1934, which if I'm not mistaken was after *British Agent* was released.
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It's not Hollywood and it's not a feature, but I think it's always worth mentioning Gus Visser and His Singing Duck when it comes to early sound on film:
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> I'm very fond of my friend's boys who are 18 and 20 but I wouldn't be so silly to marry one of them.
Mrs. Helenbaby, you're trying to seduce me! ;-)
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> Or I could have called it "Eh Canadian Thread".
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know Aboot Canada But Were Afraid to Ask". :-p
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> No Fair! I was already composing my message when you posted but I was delayed with gettting the links I included.
I, on the other hand, was lucky enough to see you had responded in the time between my first reading the thread and going back to the main forum, so I could respond without being a rotten egg. :-p
> Kyle (A Good Egg?) In Hollywood
The Egg and I?